Southern California punk heroes Bad Religion have long matched the ferociousness of their riffs with lyrical profundity. On their sixteenth album, True North, out tomorrow, the band steamrolls through 16 songs in an economical 35 minutes and covers such topics as materialism ("Robin Hood in Reverse," "Land of Endless Greed") and painful memories ("Past Is Dead," "My Head Is Full of Ghosts"). Clearly, these are meaningful topics to guitarist-songwriter Brett Gurewitz and frontman Greg Graffin.

Rolling Stone joined Gurewitz at his home in Pasadena, California, to discuss the new album and its surprising influences, the Occupy movement and why the punk-rock ethos was "a moment in time."

01. Thoughts On Article 19
02. You Are Not Alone (The World Is Full Of Assholes)
03. Ruins For The Future
04. Our Perfect Lies
05. Freezing Factory Floors
06. Time Well Wasted
07. Plea For Peace
08. Greed Energy
09. Too Punk To Funk - Part Deux
10. The Final Anthropogenic Extinction Event
11. As Seen On TV
12. Fuck The System Etc.

Mighty Midgets is a melodic hardcore band from Aalborg, Denmark formed in June 2006. The band has played more than 125 shows all over Europe with bands as US Bombs, Banner Pilot, Tragedy, The Unseen, Streetlight Manifesto, Smoke or Fire, Voice of a Generation, This is a Standoff, Real McKenzies, Off With Their Heads, Fake Problems, Leatherface, MDC and many more.
Mighty Midgets released their debut album “Raising Ruins for the Future” in March 2010, as a co-operation between Shattered Thought Records, Deadlamb Records and 5FeetUnder Records. The album was recorded at 5FeetUnder Studio in Aalborg, Denmark, in the band’s spare time and free evenings during 2009. The record is mixed and mastered by Jacob Bredahl (Last Mile and former Hatesphere) at the Dead Rat Studio in Århus, Denmark in January 2010. The album has received worldwide critical acclaim and made onto quite a few top lists of 2010.
In June 2011 the band released a 4-way international split with Revenge of the Psychotronic Man (UK), Fist of the North Star (USA) and Broken Aris (Sweden) including six new songs.
Mighty Midgets' earlier releases include the EP Plug-N-Pray (2008) on their own label 5FeetUnder Records, the split 7" (2007) with the Copenhagen band Stars Burn Stripes also on 5FeetUnder Records and a split CD (2006) with German band The Cakes on Canadian AMP Records. Furthermore, the band has contributed songs to various compilations around the globe.
Mighty Midgets takes pride in writing evocative songs; often with political and personally charged lyrics. The band tries to keep a somewhat educated and positive outlook in their songs yet deals with serious subjects such as racism, homophobia, free speech and the state of the environment.

All The Way Down is a young Skatepunk Band from Luxembourg. Their music combines the spirit of 90s Skatepunk with all sorts of influences from other music genres.

The band was formed in March of 2009, when three young musicians rehearsed for the first time in a small village called Erpeldange.

The band started as an instrumental project, covering punk songs, but John Wolter, the drummer of the band, soon started to write the first own songs for the band. John also became the lead singer of the band because nobody could be found to take on the vocals.The band already shared the stage with bands like Strung Out, The Casualties, Dead to Me, Adolescents, The Disliked, The Bandgeek Mafia, Versus You...

Did you know that there was a skatebaording scene in East Germany behind the wall? Don’t miss this precious piece of skatboarding which is winning independent movie awards all over the world!

The docufiction 'This Ain’t California' is about a friendship of a bunch of skateboarders in the estern part of Germany during the 80s. It is about friendship, youth, girls, kissing, distroying things, going crazy and growing up as good as possible.

In 90 minutes, we see the GDR more sharply, more clearly: the skater subculture shows that not all was grey-on-grey and drab clouds of Trabant fumes. This Wildfremd production (Ronald Vietz and Michael Schöbel) by director Martin Persiel takes original clips of the “wheel-board-riders” – straight out of the East German scene in the 80s – and mixes it with animations and reencounters with the protagonists today. It is not just a well thought out story on its own – this film also raises the aesthetic bar.

'Skating as freedom' is one of the leitmotifs of this film. Skating 'without pressure to be better than someone else', as one of the main characters puts it, became the goal in hindsight, or, said downright harshly, 'the desire for freedom turned lifestyle'. Unbelievable, if not for the simple fact that this Californian fun could find its expression in the GDR.

'The GDR was not supposed to be that way – the streets were not for playing around' we hear at one point in the film – just as the 'wheel-boards' roll across Alexanderplatz in footage from the 80s: hotpants, sex and music right beside government-organized processions.

The story is authentic right down to the production and creative teams, which are made up of East and West German skaters.

'Wessi' director Marten Persiel works along with 'Ossis' in the production, revisiting their lives and their own experiences without romanticizing any of it.

The arc of the film connects past and present to show how the skaters’ lives (shaped by a repressive system) have their own strength. 'This Ain’t California' has a light-hearted yet powerful soundtrack as limitless as the vitality of its protagonists. Yet it is not a light-hearted film at all. It is a metaphor with its beginnings in the GDR but does not end with the fall of the wall.

These true professionals – in the most positive sense of the word – have finally come together to create this wonderful film for the cinema after years of working in diverse genres.

The pictorial language, the editing, the animations: while watching the film one recognizes the expertise behind it and, luckily for the audience, an unquenchable passion for the medium.

Life in the GDR as it has never been seen: a film that shows a unique generation from the GDR in the 80s which has never before been shown in a film. It is free from the classic GDR clichés, which are often adopted by the occidental point of view.

A film in which the East takes a look at the West, right up to the year 2011 – always with one theme clearly in focus: friendship.

Limber is a funny and original melodic hardcore band from Mallorca, Spain, with ex members of Main Line 10, Necroalligators and LC. The band is about to release their first 7 songs EP called 'Survival Instinct' recorded at psychosomatic studios by Mega.

Disconnect Disconnect Records are happy to announce that we will be releasing the new album from Albany NY’s After The Fall. A long time favourite of the label, After The Fall’s full length ‘Unkind‘ will be out on March 19th on CD in Europe through us at Disconnect Disconnect Records, under license from Paper and Plastick (who are handling the vinyl / digital global release).

'Unkind' is their 4th album, and sits in between the technical skate punk sound of 2nd album 'Fort Orange' and the more aggressive third album 'Eradication', creating a great album, sure to be one of the punk rock releases of 2013.

The album is 12 tracks of relentless punk rock with plenty of shredding which should appeal to fans of Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere, Good Riddance and Bad Religion.
Check out the closer to the album ‘Decade’ below for a taste of what's to come from the album.

Russian fast melodic punkers Void Zero Mess have put up a new track: 'No Regrets', the first single from their upcoming album "For People Who I'll Never Forget!". The track features Scott Sellers (Mercy Street/Rufio) on vocals who also helped with the mix on drums.

The french tech skatepunk band Forus, which is working on their new album, released a video for the 2011's Russian tour.

Hey buddies!!!! Finally, time to show you the FORUS Cold Vodka Tour video, yiiihaaAAAAAA!!!! This video was taken only with amateurs footages, it was long to edit but looks funny;) For those who are only interested by punk rock, you can start at 3:30:) ♥ Russia ♥

Out Of Date have put up their new music video online for all to see/hear! Check out 'Bye My Friend' below. This track will be featured on the band's upcoming EP, 'Forget To Remember', with pre-ordering starting on Jan. 31, 2013.

The LP is a ferocious family of sixteen songs creatively juiced enough to hold its own against Bad Religion's contributions to the theoretical punk hall of fame -- staples like 1988's "Suffer" and 1994's "Stranger Than Fiction". Vocalist and songwriter Greg Graffin, who spends much of his year as a college professor and author of nonfiction books like "Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God" and the forthcoming "The Population Wars," spoke with Billboard about Bad Religion's secret to longevity, finally titling a song "F--k You", and the possibility of retirement.

In 2005, when the melodic punk-scene in Sweden was almost completely dead, they appeared. Atlas Losing Grip rose from the ashes and their debut-album "Shut the World Out" took them touring around Europe.

Satanic Surfers lead singer and frontman Rodrigo Alfaro, who had appeared as a guest vocalist on the debut-album, was recruited in 2008. Things fell into place and the group was completed.

As a five-piece they recorded the MCD 'Watching The Horizon'. The result? Five brilliant tracks. And for the first time in a years, Swedish punk rock felt alive and real.

The band toured all over Europe and supported Bad Religion on a few Scandinavian dates before starting to work on their next album 'State Of Unrest', which was released in May 2011.

'State Of Unrest' has been praised by the press and the success of the album has taken Atlas Losing Grip out on the road again like never before.

After playing 87 shows in 2011, came the release of a s/t 7" which featured two acoustic versions of songs from 'State of Unrest' and the song 'Act Your Rage' which was meant to be on 'State of Unrest', but never made it all the way.

01. True North
02. Past Is Dead
03. Robin Hood In Reverse
04. Land Of Endless Greed
05. Fuck You
06. Dharma And The Bomb
07. Hello Cruel World
08. Vanity
09. In Their Hearts Is Right
10. Crisis Time
11. Dept. Of False Hope
12. Nothing To Dismay
13. Popular Consensus
14. My Head Is Full Of Ghosts
15. The Island
16. Changing Tide

Part 1:
Bad Religion (Early Version)
Politics
Slaves
Drastic Actions
World War III
We're Only Gonna Die
Latch Key Kids
Part III
Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell
Pity
Damned To Be Free
White Trash (2nd Generation)
Voice Of God Is Government
Doing Time
It's Only Over When...
Billy Gnosis
The Dichotomy
Yesterday
Frogger
Bad Religion
Along The Way
New Leaf
You Are (The Government)
1000 More Fools
How Much Is Enough?
When
Give You Nothing
Land Of Competition
Forbidden Beat
Best For You
Suffer
Delirium Of Disorder
Part II (The Numbers Game)
What Can You Do?
Do What You Want
Pessimistic Lines
Change of Ideas
Big Bang
No Control
Sometimes I Feel Like
Automatic Man
I Want to Conquer the World
Sanity
Henchman
You
I Want Something More
Modern Man
Turn on the Light
Get Off
Anesthesia
Flat Earth Society
Faith Alone
Against the Grain
Operation Rescue
God Song
21st Century (Early Version)
generator
too much to ask
no direction
tomorrow
two babies in the dark
heaven is falling
atomic garden
the answer
recipe for hate
Kerosene

Part 2:
American Jesus
Portrait Of Authority
Man With A Mission
Watch It Die
Struck A Nerve
Lookin' In
Modern Day Catastrophists
Skyscraper
Incomplete
Leave Mine To Me
Stranger Than Fiction
The Handshake
Infected
Marked
Inner Logic
What It Is
21st Century
News from the front
dream of unity
The Gray Race
Them and Us
A Walk
Punk Rock Song
Ten in 2010
Come Join Us
Cease
Hear It
All Fantastic Images
Sowing the Seeds of Utopia
You've Got a Chance
The fast life
Don't Sell Me Short
Supersonic
Prove It
Can't Stop It
Kyoto Now
Sorrow
Epiphany
The Defense
Overture
Sinister Rouge
Social Suicide
Atheist Peace
All There Is
Los Angeles Is Burning
Let Them Eat War
God's Love
52 Seconds
Heroes & Martyrs
Germs of Perfection
New Dark Ages
Requiem for Dissent
Before You Die
Honest Goodbye
Dearly Beloved
The Devil In Stitches
The Day the Earth Stalled
The Resist Stance
Wrong Way Kids
Cyanide
Infected (accoustic)
New Dark Ages (accoustic)
Dearly Beloved (accoustic)
Sorrow (accoustic)
Cease (piano)

01. True North
02. Past Is Dead
03. Robin Hood In Reverse
04. Land Of Endless Greed
05. Fuck You
06. Dharma And The Bomb
07. Hello Cruel World
08. Vanity
09. In Their Hearts Is Right
10. Crisis Time
11. Dept. Of False Hope
12. Nothing To Dismay
13. Popular Consensus
14. My Head Is Full Of Ghosts
15. The Island
16. Changing Tide

The swedish fast melodic punkers Skumdum have posted on their official website the cover for the new album 'Ten Thousand People' out this year. A new single off this album will be also released on the 20th of January.

Alternative Press is streaming a brand new Authority Zero song titled 'No Other Place' off their upcoming album 'The Tipping Point' to be released on April 2nd via Hardline Entertainment (US/Canada/Japan), Concrete Jungle (Europe/UK) and 3wise Records (Australia).

A Day in the Life Of... is a compilation, and the majority of the tracks come from the best demos New School has received in the past few years. Many of the artists have recently become part of other established labels, such as Nitro, Over Giver, Bettie Rocket and more. Genres range from pop punk to skate punk, giving listeners a chance to hear some of the best music from bands that haven’t yet hit it big. This compilation is a must for anyone who loves being the first kid on the block to know about up-and-coming bands!

Punchers Plant is about passion for hard yet melodic music, lyrics with a strong message that connect to our generation, and a deep-rooted interest in inspiring art in general.

The band has now released a new song titled 'Patience' off their upcoming album 'How To Scape' to be released this year. 'Patience' is also going to be released on a limited 7'' vinyl by www.munich-punk-shop.de.

Teni Svobody is a punk band from Moscow playing punk rock inspired by bands like Bad Religion, Pennywise, No Fun At All, NOFX. Formed in 2004, having played hundreds of shows in Russia and close countries, the band has recorded 3 albums and 2 EP's, the last of which, BRING IT DOWN, is their latest release and the first record in English.

Sfweekly did a pretty cool list of the 10 most controversial moments of the californian punk rock band NOFX.

9. Playing through head injuries with the best of them
On a tour stop in Israel in 2007, Fat Mike managed to hit guitarist Eric Melvin in the face with his bass while playing "Bottles to the Ground," breaking the bass and leaving a giant bleeding head gash in Melvin's head. They just borrowed a bass from the opener, though, and played through, which would be more impressive if we didn't think all involved parties on stage were probably too drunk to feel any of it.